Will public funding, the public radio model be the savior for high quality, ethically sound journalism? Laura Walker, President and Chief Executive Officer of WNYC Public Radio, says, “I don’t think it is an easy model, I think it’s actually harder, and I think it gets underestimated.” To learn more, watch the Leonard Witt video [...]
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Tagged Center for Sustainable Journalism, foundations, Future of Journalism, journalism business models, Laura Walker, Leonard Witt, public funding, public radio, video interview, WNYC
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February 18, 2010 – 11:18 am
Today Paul Bass’s New Haven Independent is featured in a New York Times article about journalism change. Leonard Witt did the following video interview recently with Bass for his Future of Journalism of series. Bass says, “The future of journalism I think is the flowering of independent news websites as well as the morphing of [...]
February 17, 2010 – 12:01 am
There was a time when folks leisurely read their news over breakfast. Alas, Northwestern University researcher Pablo Boczkowski has found that now people are reading most of their news on the internet at work. Their new reading habits are such that, according to Boczkowski, it is unlikely that they will pay for the news. Boczkowski [...]
February 9, 2010 – 12:01 am
As part of Leonard Witt’s video series on the Future of Journalism he spoke with Robert Picard, a well respected media economist; when Witt asked him the big question about the Future of Journalism, Picard responded:
I’m very optimistic about the future of news and journalism. I’m not as optimistic about large bureaucratized organizations that have [...]
January 26, 2010 – 3:06 pm
Of course, everyone is all atwitter about the soon to be released new Apple tablet and that excitement apparently includes app developers. Jeff Haynie and his folks at Appcelerator did a survey of about 500 of its 18,000 developers. According to the survey, the developers anticipate building tablet apps in this order: Business/Productivity, Entertainment, Social [...]
January 18, 2010 – 11:47 am
Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols discuss their new book The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again with NOW’s David Brancaccio “about the perils of a shrinking news media landscape, and their bold proposal to save journalism with government subsidies.”
They discuss the idea of providing [...]
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Tagged Bob McChesney, Death and Life of American Journalism, government subsidies, John Nichols, journalism, journalism business models, newspapers, reinvent journalism, Robert McChesney, save journalism, sustainable journalism
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January 12, 2010 – 12:02 am
Yesterday, after using the Baltimore media ecosystem as a case study, the Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) issued a rather gloomy report on the state of local news. A few weeks ago, I asked Tom Rosenstiel, director of PEJ, if he was an optimist or pessimist about the state of the journalism. [...]
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Tagged Center for Sustainable Journalism, Future of Journalism, Leonard Witt, local news, newspapers, PEJ, Pew, Project for Excellence in Journalism, reinvent journalism, Tom Rosenstiel, Video Interviews
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January 7, 2010 – 2:42 pm
Each year about this time I tell people to register now for the our SoCon social media, social networking conference at Kennesaw State University because to wait is to risk getting shut out. And, of course, then when it is too late — we only have 300 seats — I start getting the calls. So [...]
January 7, 2010 – 12:01 am
Geek Squad founder Robert Stephens says anyone contemplating a journalism start-up should think of getting a mobile presence first and then think of a computer application that plays off the app, not the other way around. Indeed, if he were starting the Geek Squad today, it would not be providing support for computers, it would [...]
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Tagged Android, Center for Sustainable Journalism, Future of Journalism, Geek Squad, Leonard Witt, mobile, newspapers, Robert Stephens, smart phones, tablets
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